As an Associate on the Research team, Amber supports projects with a mixed methods approach that includes analyzing surveys and data, working on literature reviews, and writing informative pieces that enlighten the public about the financial health of disadvantaged communities. She looks forward to using data to discover innovative and thoughtful solutions that focus on community collaboration, place-based initiatives, and decreasing the racial wealth gap. 

Prior to joining the Financial Health Network, Amber served as a Research Specialist at The Eviction Lab where she worked in housing policy focused on the current eviction crisis. She helped maintain the Lab’s nationwide eviction database, and conducted interviews with housing and government agencies affected by the Treasury’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program in response to COVID-19. She also studied racial residential segregation, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, and the effects of gentrification in the Chicago metropolitan area. Her work at The Eviction Lab has helped inform the research of professors and post-doctoral fellows and has been used in the bestselling book “Poverty, by America.”

Amber earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a minor in Politics, Law, and Social Thought from Rice University.